Advanced Piano

Jehkin Iivana, ursprünglich für Gitarre komponiert, entführt den Hörer in die sagenhafte Welt finnischer Mythen und Epen, als tapfere Helden die Geschicke des Nordlands führten und ein Volk von Zauber...

Referring to Robert Schumann, the title sets the general mood of these character pieces which alternate between Romantic and contemporary tonal language. This is how the composer stresses it in his pr...

After his spectacular cadenza of Beethoven's Concerto in C minor (contained in ED 20140), the well-known Turkish pianist and composer now presents cadenzas of two of the most popular concertos by Moza...

In this series, Schott presents demanding piano transcriptions of well-known works. The series comprises 14 editions, all volumes of which have been compiled with great care and given a special cover....

Rainer Maria Rilke gives the well-known Orpheus myth a surprising turn: when Orpheus turns around, Eurydike does not recognise him (any more). In his piano piece composed as a compulsory piece for the...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues, Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most outstanding piano music composers of our time. As he is an excellent pianist himself, he was able...

Bach transcriptions have always been popular for the musical brilliance of the Baroque master opens up a vast field, for composers and performers. Even the pianist and composer Emile Naoumoff who bega...

The piano pieces by Nikolay Andreyevitch Roslawez selected here and published for the first time complement the already published piano sonatas (ED 7941, ED 8391, ED 8392) and individual pieces (ED 79...

This first print is a rarity: the highly virtuoso, evocative 'Nocturne' owes its creation to an instrument that has only survived as a museum piece. Gustave Lyon, the director of the French instrument...

The richly varied concert piece shows how well the composer, himself a brilliant piano player, knows how to use the instrument. His polyphonic, complex compositional style gives way to various possibi...

Widmann's Intermezzi are influenced by the famous cycles of Johannes Brahms (Op. 116 - Op. 119) which are cited quite frequently. In the preface of the edition, Widmann hints at its 'unsettling reduct...

Der 1956 in Moskau geborene Alexander Rosenblatt absolvierte am renommierten Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt ein Klavier- und Kompositionsstudium. In seiner Tonsprache verbindet er klassische Elemen...

Georg Kreisler has become known to a wide audience as a satirist. But today, only few still know his purely pianistic oeuvre of high virtuoso quality. 'My piano sonata is difficult to play, but when I...

An evocative cycle from the early years of the Turkish pianist and composer which appears again and again in his piano recital programmes.

An evocative cycle from the early years of the Turkish pianist and composer which appears again and again in his piano recital programmes.

The title may be read as an indication of the key and genre, on the one hand, but also as an allusion to a slightly depressive mood, on the other hand. Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor which may have...

This is a highly virtuosic piano piece with alternating metres and miniature rhythmic elements which are abstract representations of traditional Turkish rhythms.